When you inspect a material upon goods receipt, you typically draw physical samples from a readily available, known quantity of goods or materials. The goods are usually delivered in one or more containers from which you draw the physical samples. The system determines the scope of the physical-sample drawing from the information in the inspection plan and assigned sample-drawing procedure, and prints it out on the sample-drawing instruction when an inspection lot is created. The sample-drawing instruction specifies:

• How many physical samples you must draw from the available quantity of goods

• How to distribute the physical samples among the laboratories for inspection

For most goods receipt inspections, you only need to plan one sample-drawing item in the sample-drawing procedure to specify how to draw the physical samples. The operations in the inspection plan represent the different laboratories to which you distribute the physical samples. Although each laboratory usually performs a different type of inspection, the inspected material is generally the same in all laboratories.

You can also inspect physical samples drawn in a goods receipt inspection that have not been planned.

The following questions and answers can help you determine how to proceed:

• What do I have to do if I want to plan and process physical samples for a goods-receipt inspection?

1. Plan the physical samples in a sample-drawing procedure.
2. Assign the sample drawing procedure to the inspection plan.
3. Record inspection results for the automatically created physical samples after the system creates the inspection lot.

• What do I have to do if I want to draw and inspect additional physical samples beyond the ones that were planned?

• Expand the existing physical-sample drawing to include the new, manually created physical samples.

• Create a new physical-sample drawing manually with reference to an inspection lot or an order.